Islands of Innocence - The Childhood Theme in New Zealand Fiction by M H Holcroft
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Series: The Macmillan Brown Lectures April 1964 | Reading Level: very good
The Life of Katherine Mansfield by Antony Alpers
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
The Accidental Anthropologist by Michael Jackson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
THE ACCIDENTAL ANTHROPOLOGIST is a fascinating, impeccably written memoir, or more accurately, a series of fragments. Compelling and absorbing as well as intense and insightful, Jackson writes a far from classically autobiographical text. There is nothing predictable about the mode or incidents he has ...Show more
O Darkly Bright by John Summers
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Conversation in a Train and Other Critical Writings by Frank Sargeson; Kevin Cunningham (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Frank Sargeson wrote fiction for over half a century as well as occasional criticism in many forms and on many topics. Writers considered include D H Lawrence, Sherwood Anderson, Henry Lawson, Rolf Boldrewood and Olive Schreiner besides fellow New Zealanders such as Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, Dan ...Show more
The Carpathians by Janet Frame
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
What happens when the town of Puamahara begins to profit from its legend and the astronomers discovering the Gravity Star predict an unthinkable future? Mattina Brecon, a New Yorker, arrives in Kowhai Street, Puamahara, where her painstaking study of her neighbours is interrupted by a new kind of catacl ...Show more
Introducing Maurice Gee by David Hill
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Somewhere a Cleaner - Their voices in poems and prose by Adrienne Jansen et al (eds)
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Somewhere a cleaner Poems by cleaners from around New Zealand During the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve all been thinking about essential services. Including cleaning. Cleaning is universal. It’s steeped in tradition and culture. It’s essential, it’s ordinary and it’s surprisingly poetic. Somewhere a cleaner ...Show more
Complete With Instructions by David Howard (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
As not seen on TV / David Howard & John Kinsella -- Design and poetry: the engineering of sense / Keith Russell -- The narration of pain and suffering: culture, meaning, healing / Grant Duncan -- Familiars: R.A.K. Mason, Jenny Barrer & James K. Baxter in 1963-1964 / Elizabeth Glanville -- Strait ...Show more
Landfall 234 by David Eggleton (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers and artists, plus reviews of the lates ...Show more
How the Land Lies - Of Longing and Belonging by Pat White
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: near fine
How the land lies is a powerful and moving memoir. After an anxious childhood spent in a series of railway settlements in the post-War years, White kept moving through places, occupations and lives, slowly learning where and how he wanted to live.